Is media really progressing?

The ways that information can be quickly delivered have increased rapidly in the last couple of decades. From newspapers and magazines all the way to Facebook and BBM, are different technologies that have been added to the mass media. The question here is if this rapid progress is in fact progress. Is information being easily transmitted to a large number of humans really achieve the goal of media or help it? From my point of view it doesn't. The fact that information is being transmitted faster doesn't mean that it's efficient or correct. So much information is being passed on the internet and on the thousands of TV channels that people's main concern is not what type of information they're receiving or if it is correct. Their main concern is how fast it gets there. Yes, that might be important but how can you trust now that any piece of information that is being passed on to you is correct or valid. The internet is open to anyone to write any information they would like and so many people see that information that it becomes so easy for false information to be passed along. So many stereotypes and false accusations are arising because of people not making sure that the information that is being passed is correct. An example of that is the large rumor that came out when Michael Jackson died that he had converted to Islam before dying and that he had started creating his Islamic album before he was killed. Three huge assumptions were made one that he was killed two that he became Muslim three that he began recording Islamic albums. They even showed a video of his first Islamic song leading the people to believe that it was actually true. Although the video that showed the song didn't show Michael Jackson's face but people assumed it was him and believed it. Whether this is true no one actually knows. It just shows how false information can easily be passed along online..